Black Bottom 1926, and The Black Bottom Dance
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The Varsity Drag introduction is an error. The Black Bottom replaced "The Charleston" as the next most popular dance of the 1920's. Released June 28, 1926. Written by Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. In 1925, DeSylva became one third of the songwriting team with lyricist Lew Brown and composer Ray Henderson. De Sylva, Brown and Henderson became one of the top Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the era. Black bottom dancing was for the young and energetic. This song and style of dancing were popular in the1920's. The dancers performing, and the orchestra are from 1956, Rod Alexander Gemze de Lappe and The Dance Jubilee Troupe. Billy Pierce (14 June 1890 - 11 April 1933) was an African American choreographer, dancer and dance studio owner who has been credited with the invention of the Black Bottom dance that became a national craze in the mid-1920s. ORIGINS OF 1920'S DANCES. THE ORIGIN OF THE BLACK BOTTOM DANCE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_B...
THE CHARLESTON DANCE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
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This is what i do when i remember i still have leftovers in the fridge.
@vickiefinney6073
4 жыл бұрын
Me too, when i eat chocolate. Mmm good 🍫
@oriolsosa940
4 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAH
@evilazulan
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 saaaame!
@juliamcintyre5012
3 жыл бұрын
Why? I'm glad of leftovers - it's the chocolate that gets me exercising!
@quinnmorgendorffer8435
3 жыл бұрын
👏🤭
FYI this is a 1920s style song choreographed in the late 1950s, you can tell from the men's clothing, those suits are from the 50s, 20s style suits were much looser, esp in the mid-1920s.
@user-mv9tt4st9k
5 жыл бұрын
I was wondering about that, too. The film is too modern and the 1920s dresses are not period correct.
@ayishas4385
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks; I was thinking it looked a lot later than the 20s. And not just because there was sound!
@jarredsmith7375
4 жыл бұрын
@@user-mv9tt4st9k yeah the womens dresses are far too short to be 1920s
@BrookieMacc
4 жыл бұрын
ramboram03 I didn’t know that, thank you!🙌✨
@SoFkwHat80
4 жыл бұрын
It tells you the date of this particular piece in the write up. 1956.
Watching videos of people in a different generation having fun whilst doing something they enjoy makes me really happy. I would have loved to live through the twenties
@retroguy9494
2 жыл бұрын
Yes me too! But I wouldn't want to live through the 30's with the depression unless I had money. Or the 40's because if I were a teenager doing these dances during the 20's most likely I would have been drafted in World War II
@weyman4317
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful time for dance and music but a lot of sadness from the recently finished great war, no NHS , no welfare state so not all that wonderful.
@datedylan2187
Жыл бұрын
Ig if you’re white
@ianwhitcomb
10 ай бұрын
You do know that this is a clip extracted from a 1960s comedy show, right?
@Slaughterbugs
4 ай бұрын
@@ianwhitcomb Who cares? The point is that it shows the dance. My father was a musician in a band that played for a big party on a riverboat one night, and he said that when they played the Black Bottom and everybody danced, the boat literally rocked from side to side on the water.
Man, that would give me a heart attack, you had to be in good shape to dance in those days
@B4N4NA_PH0NE
4 жыл бұрын
Everytime I come back to this video to listen to the music and watch their dance and get inspired, this comment never fails to make me laugh
@makinbacongreasyagain968
3 жыл бұрын
Nah, you could do “the Shimmy” back then that shit was easy just shaking your shoulders and leaning back and forth lol
@Jackson-mi3dr
3 жыл бұрын
They really out there sweating in the damn suits lol
@user-ih6vs3eg3o
3 жыл бұрын
@Zuma Zuma it’s the random folks that danced it first!
@jayyoung4534
3 жыл бұрын
@Mark...Which would include, also, Astaire, Rogers, Kelly, "Cagney, Daily, Charisse, O'Connor, Verdon, Fosse, -- oh, heck, I could go on forever. But, yes, you had to be in good shape!
My mother taught us girls how to do this dance back in the 1950's. Fun.
@gerardo49078
5 жыл бұрын
That sounds like fun (: Hope you are doing well
@thegreencat9947
4 ай бұрын
Oh shoot...we all knew the Charleston..or some variation of it. I'm 80..
@olavwilhelm6843
2 ай бұрын
WHY ? IT WAS ALMOST 30 YEARS OUT OF FASHIN IN THE 50'S
@thegreencat9947
2 ай бұрын
@@olavwilhelm6843 Hey, styles from the 60s is still cool now! Cool is cool...no matter .
I can say with great confidence and from personal experience that doing this kind of dancing is better than any anti depressant for boosting your mood.
@amor5060
3 жыл бұрын
what a stupid comment
@paulcrenshaw812
3 жыл бұрын
I teach this type of dancing, danced it a couple times a week pre-pandemic, and still needed antidepressants. It helps, yes. It's not a replacement, though. Don't act like a doctor when you aren't one.
@retroguy9494
2 жыл бұрын
@@paulcrenshaw812 If I tried to dance like that at MY age, I wouldn't need an anti depressant, I'd need an oxygen tank! LOL
@SoulShines4U
2 жыл бұрын
@@paulcrenshaw812 - Are you familiar with the word hyperbole? If not I encourage you to look it up and then lighten up. 🙄 I'm sure the comment wasn't intended as actual medical advice rather harmless exaggeration and overstating for effect.
@paulcrenshaw812
2 жыл бұрын
@@SoulShines4U Thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately, the advice (hyperbole notwithstanding) is both common and tangibly damaging.
Put your hands in the air, and wave ‘em like you just don’t care! 😁
My great grand father Billy Pierce choreographed ,invented / introduced this dance back in the 1020's
@cdb88
5 жыл бұрын
Your Great Grandfather was so cool!!! But you don't need me to tell you that!
@walkmanstudios9733
5 жыл бұрын
Wow in the 1020’s what a trend setter
@weatherboi
5 жыл бұрын
When? He must be VERY old!
@theresag1969
5 жыл бұрын
@Brandon Greenleaf Stupid, Google it.
@dcch2798
5 жыл бұрын
Do you have any video of him doing it. Very awesome! Plus do you ever find yourself dancing like this? 😊
Love this piece. Performed almost 60 years ago, it still seems fresh and exciting. Love it.
@sirbernardmendesfrance6817
Жыл бұрын
It was filmed and performed at the University of Washington in 1978, I’m the one with the glasses.
This is why they didn't need to go to exercise gyms back then!
@dayshawnacash2138
10 жыл бұрын
Lol true
@isunlloaoll
6 жыл бұрын
Also because they ate real food, and worked real jobs...
@WilliamsElaine
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah that and no high fructose corn syrup either.
@waynejones205
5 жыл бұрын
@@isunlloaoll IDK, for the former, pull up Billy Murray's cover of Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You Someday(year 1916) :o I'm actually Shocked they live so thru such fare.
@anthonyrobertson7062
5 жыл бұрын
Cissy2cute Most people didn't dance like this. If you watch old footage of night clubs most people are just doing very basic simple steps and not nearly this energized or fast. Everyone wasn't taking advanced dance lessons twice a week. So I find this somewhat misleading. Yeah, you would see this at a theater production or something.
I remember my Uncle Claude had this song on an old 78 record! Us kids loved to hear it back in the mid 1960’s!
@alexcordero6672
Жыл бұрын
I have a 12 and 15-year-old teenagers that like listening to this. There are kids that really enjoy this music.
EXCELLENT dancers doing the black bottom dance!!! LOVE IT! Thank you so much for posting. 1920s were hip! (I am a dance teacher with a bachelor's degree in dance education)
“Crazy maaaan! Ain’t it the cat’s pajamas?!”
@joannemccauley8059
4 жыл бұрын
its the bees knees!!!!
Boy, they sure can dance!
@Jazzie654
3 жыл бұрын
Agree
If you are ever in Tasmania when Tasswing organize a ball, like the other night, as part of the winter swing festival, a group of dancers will form a Charleston circle and do this. It is not choreographed, and anyone who knows some of the moves can join in. It is huge fun, and practically impossible to stop smiling.
My grandma was dancing to this back then lol
Awesome classic all-in dance group doing the Black Bottom with 1920s style !
What a work out!
@Lasstpak
10 жыл бұрын
After sex best there is ;)
What a fun looking dance! I love it! Makes me want to dance again!! 🎼🎵🎶
The twenties must have been a blast. The age of dances and music like this, art deco design, women wearing those hats that always covered the forehead, men in knickers and those Fair Isle sweaters, refrigerators with the compressors on top, cars like Packards and Lincoln’s and Pierce-Arrows, travel to Europe on luxury ocean liners - of course many could not afford these things but you could always aspire to them - but it still looked like a lot of fun at least on the surface.
@wordsofcheresie936
Ай бұрын
"Men in knickers" - this was obviously written by an American. To British ears, he is talking about men in panties.
There was a cartoon when I was little that sang ,"everybody does the varsity drag!"
@MA-wq2ih
4 жыл бұрын
The one with the dancing frog?
Good lord you had to be like an athlete to go out dancing back in the 1920s! If these dances were still in today clubs would have to have oxygen, defibrillators & stretchers near the dance floor!
@user-eb7yk2pb3o
6 күн бұрын
I could dance all night in the seventies. Now a days it is fun to watch, the body pays with all that fun, and I would still do it again.
This looks like so much fun! These dancers are really good and their energy is infectious!
I have that on 78 and yes it is an excellent version, Johnny Hamp is one of my favorites from that era.
This is just terrific! Thank you so much for posting this!
What a great excersice no wonder people were in such great shape!!
@crooner62 Performed in 1956 by Rod Alexander and The Jubilee Dance Troupe
Very beautiful music for dancing in this 2023
Those people sure dance good.My grandma could do the Charleston and black bottom dance in the 1920's as a young adult.
I am amazed! Thanks so much for sharing! Beautiful. Cheers from Winnipeg, Canada.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT! I'm dancing as I type!😁 My thanks for posting one of the greatest dances of the 1920s and 2020s!😉
Essa sim era uma época em que tudo acontecia saudades do que eu nunca vivi
@Karen-je5iz
Жыл бұрын
I agree
@mateusnewsboy7915
Жыл бұрын
Eu também queria ter nascido nessa época, hoje a sociedade está uma porcaria e ainda mais com esses militantes.
I love these guys! I wish there were places in my city, where I could learn dancing like them, and dancing clubs where I could practice.
@retroguy9494
2 жыл бұрын
I remember in high school about 40 years ago I was a member of a historical club and my 11th grade English teacher taught us how to Charleston! She of course learned it as a kid when it was still popular!
My grandma told my mom that because the rhythm of the footwork was synchronized there were incidents where the dance floors collapsed. My Dad says soldiers break cadence when crossing bridges for the same reason (at least when they crossed wooden bridges).
@dashabondarenko9221
5 жыл бұрын
Fl Quirk So its necessary to walk left and right legs not semaltaniously.
@doubleghod
5 жыл бұрын
I was in the Army and I never knew about breaking cadence for fear of collapsing an overpass Veddy interesting.
@albertbatfinder5240
4 жыл бұрын
Train invading armies in advanced Black Bottom Dance choreography. What country could hold fast, when they saw that coming up the beaches and across the bridges?
@doranziegler2303
4 жыл бұрын
There were many places that banned the Charleston, Varsity Drag, and other similar dances due to collapsing floors. When I was really young our extremely large family threw a get together of about 100 people. All of the older crowd starting doing the Charleston, and it happened. I watched as they collapsed the floor. The manager of the hall had a fit and wanted to throw everyone out.
@lordeden2732
4 жыл бұрын
utter rubbish quite a lot of dancing steps are synchronized so dance floors would have been collapsing for well over a hundred years funny enough non have as of yet. and as for soldiers having to break step over bridges yes there were signs requesting it to be carried out Albert Bridge in London is one. My fathers regiment defided the order once just to see what would happen going over Albert bridge. And all that took place was a very very slight wobble.
Wonderfull. ..wonderfull wonderful
Oh wonderful, just wonderful, that's really made me smile!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS WONDERFUL ROUTINE! PLEASE SEND IT TO SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE AND MAKE TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO REPLACE THEIR DREADFUL JIVE CATEGORY WITH THE BLACK BOTTOM! THIS IS SPECIAL!
so cool..
to think at that time, that was modern, new, refreshing and now 100 years later no one is alive to tell us of those times and to see these people now reminds us of what will become of our dances and traditions 100 years later, the cycle repeats
I wish dance halls were still popular among the youth. It’s better than grinding everywhere at nightclubs!
Great job guys and gals I love the dancing of that era and also the music
Love the faces the lead male dancer keeps making .
@baronsorgi1
4 жыл бұрын
Johnny Blackhart Do you know what his name is I like to research them
brilliant made my morning
Great dance! I thoroughly enjoyed the video❤
Just beautiful!!!!!
The Varsity Drag is the name of the piece played in the background. The Black Bottom Stomp is the name of the dance.
High quality!!!!Class!!!!!!
Super Cool! Thanks for posting.
What wonderful happy human beings!
Love the dance and love the music.
Such a delightful dance! Those were happy days
People think of wild times. The 20's were a veritable Madhouse.
They were so energetic and happy! Wore me out watching the energy lol!
@lindasimons691
5 жыл бұрын
Wasn't there cocaine in the cola back then?
Love IT... Do this today! It will make feel better !!!
@Karen-je5iz
Жыл бұрын
Me too
Simplemente grandioso!!! Me encanta.
Bravissimi in perfetta sintonia 🎩🌹👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is fantastic..simply not too long away from the 20s to look like people today dancing in costumes.... :) luuuuuve it ;)
Absolut großartig.!!!!!
This is literally the best thing ever.
@mildridj3423
6 жыл бұрын
Mariama Corneh of course it was. It was nothing as long as blacks were doing it. Let a few whites start doing it and it becomes world famous.
@CroixdeLorraine
6 жыл бұрын
Mildrid J Here we go...🙄😏
@AverageGenericN.O-Resident
6 жыл бұрын
Mildrid J yup
@thelinkan3512
5 жыл бұрын
@@mildridj3423 why do you bring race into this.
@bobbywimsy6741
5 жыл бұрын
Stono River Look on the bright side: could have been Trump and Mel trying to dance without flatulant noises from Ole Big MacDonald himself and Mel trying to sing in that Slovenian English sort of, accent. Or worse, Pickle Puss Pence and the Missus trying to unstiffen on the dance floor. Setting: Some State dinner for the 1 per cent ers in the- House of Whites!!
I just love the whole genre... with the rolled down silk stocking etc. So cute.
the music reminds me of the tom and jerry show.the dance was adorable and alluring
@RosheruCell
5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing 😂
@michaelanthony2138
2 жыл бұрын
You remind me of a Cartoon yourself.
Looks like lots of fun!
Thank you for the information regarding the date maynard cat. Much appreciated. Just wish I was young and energetic again. So much fun x
Fantastic!
My friends: ur crush I’d here act normal Me:
It makes me cry! Pink or Lady Gaga don't have anything as exciting or HAPPY ss this.Where have we gone wrong? It's my opinion and young people can argue but I will never agree with them .If I was 90 I'd dance the black bottom if I could. I am born WELL after the 20's but to me they are MORE exciting and vibrant than the depressing self absorbed days now
That was great !! What a workout !!
Cool 😎 so amazing ❤️
That looks like a pretty fun and great workout!
Toll getanzt!😊
I love the dresses!!
Very cute and so energetic!
Love this!
Excelente!
Fantastic!!
Dancers are marvelous.
This is the dance invented by Ma Rainey, the singer in the Netflix movie Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Nominated for Oscars this year.
ME ENCANTÓ GRACIAS!!!
Such a silly dance from such a silly time. I love it!
@JudgeJulieLit
8 жыл бұрын
+FunkyHigh And yet, nothing "silly" about high spirits, and the fun and health benefits of the sustained kinetic energy and muscle tonings and strengthenings of such dancercise.
@nikkimillionspring3667
5 жыл бұрын
They said they loved it....they meant “silly” as in “care free fun” lighten up, buddy, jheeze lool
@mymanjosquin
5 жыл бұрын
FunkyHigh not so silly if u recall that they had recently survived a brutal world war.
@retroguy9494
2 жыл бұрын
Yaz a silly dance from a silly time. Unlike the break dancing and slam dancing and moonwalks in the 1980's when I was a high school and college student! 🤣😂
@retroguy9494
2 жыл бұрын
@@mymanjosquin Actually I think these are supposed to be high school or college age kids. They were too young for World War I because they would have been born between 1905 and 1910ish.
Wonderful.
This is a fantastically complicated version of “The Black Bottom.” Surely your average Archie and Mabel were doing an easier version down at the neighborhood speakeasy.
Wow! Ordinary people did dance a simplified version of the black bottom. This is an athletic event that not everyone can duplicate.
Love the 20's crazy dancing!
So lively!!
My mother got herself expelled from boarding school for doing the black bottom on her bed, in the middle of the night. Headmistress not amused.
@SniffMyDeadwax
8 жыл бұрын
haha!
@doubleghod
6 жыл бұрын
I submit that the black bottom cannot be performed on a bed....unless that bed is made completely out of wood. Someone is pulling your leg.
@spicey6646
6 жыл бұрын
You've never danced on a bed?
@dburch7894
6 жыл бұрын
Double Ghod The horizontal mambo😝
@susancairney3362
6 жыл бұрын
haha I can just picture that and good on her, headmistress was jealous
Wonderful!
Beautifull
This is great....those flappers sure had a lot of fun in those days!
can't stop watching
wow i learned a lot from this thank you
@Jeffitotorres The Black Bottom June 28, 1926. Written by Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. In 1925,
Woowwww! Thankyouu!!
awesome.
Looks a lot more fun than the b.s. dancing we did when I was young, back in the 70s and 80s.
@yanni1036
9 жыл бұрын
William S. Looks like Alfalfa and Eddie Cantor.
@criticalhard
6 жыл бұрын
wtf 70's and 80's we fantastic, nowadays shit is a real crap.
@CroixdeLorraine
6 жыл бұрын
criticalhard I grew up in the 70's and 80's and I hated the music and so-called dancing of those years!! Ugly, ugly, and stupid!!
@CroixdeLorraine
6 жыл бұрын
T25S40 I remember our high school jazz band and their rendition of Glenn Miller's "In The Mood". What a helluva band it was, too!! Our class of 1978 loved that number so much that we made "In The Mood"our class song!! Maybe I wasn't the only one who couldn't stand progressive rock et al!! I am so glad that we have KZread so I can still get Swing music and bop around the house any time I wanna!!😊😊😁😉✝️⚜️
@mehitabel1290
6 жыл бұрын
But what dance styles were there in the 70s and 80s to compare with this? It was all just shuffling from one foot to the other in amorphous disco-style........
We were dancing to this recently. If I can do it at 63 anyone can😂
Love this
@boleyn123
9 жыл бұрын
Amortentia Lain
Amazing
¡me encantaaaaaaa!!
I know this a carefully choreographed 1950’s version but did they even dance like this? It’s astonishing!
@secondchance6603
5 жыл бұрын
Yes they did dance like that.
Damn kids with their wild dancing! We weren’t like that back in my day!